96 The Irish NaUiralisf. September, 1923. 



The Fox in Co. Down. 



When visiting my friend Rev. R. N. Morrison, he informed me that a 

 Fox had been seen on the road at the entrance gate to his Rectory 

 (Magherahamlet, near Ballynahinch). This is not surprising as these 

 animals are not uncommon in the Deer Park situated only about a 

 couple of miles away from his house. Some Foxes are still to be found 

 in the Mourne Mountains. 



Hillsborough, Co Down. ^^vin H. Foster. 



BOTANY. 

 Down and Antrim Plants. 



A few notes cf hitherto unrecDrded stations for some of our rarer 

 Down and Antrim plants may be of interest. 



Geranium columhinum, on railway between Dundrum and Newcastle. 



Hypericum elodes, at Ballyalloley. 



Vicia lathytoides, top of the keep at Dundrum Castle. 



Eleocharis multicaulis, at the Giant's Causewaj', and at Ballyalloley. 



Chenopodium Bonus-Henricus, .at Cregeagh. 



Cat ex teretiiiscula and Rhynchospora alba, at Sharvogue's Bog : also 

 Salix purpurea growing with S. cinerea, surely wild in such a situation. 



Ophrys apt j era at Magheramorne. This is I believe the first record of 

 the Bee Orchid in our three N. E. Counties. 



Campbell College, Belfast. Corrie D. Chase. 



Notes from Cos. Down and Armagfh. 



While searching the meadows near Ellis's Cut, for Spiranthes, where 

 the Lagan Canal enters Lough Neagh, on ist August, 1922, I observed the 

 following plants, two of which are additions to the flora of Down as listed 

 in the Flora of N, E. Ireland, and its supplements. West of the canal, in 

 Co. Armagh, Lathyrus palustris, Typha arigustifolia and Calamagrostis 

 stricta, var. Hookeri a.re still abundant in Praeger's station. 



North of the canal mouth in Co. Down, on the shore of the lough there 

 is quite a large area of the usual scrub, so characteristic of the steeper 

 parts of the eastern shores of Lough Neagh. In this scrub I found fine 

 trees of Rhamnus catharticu$ and not far away I got Chcerophyllum temulum 

 in a hedge close to Annaghdroghal House. I have no doubt the record 

 given in Cybele I for Rhamnus catharticits — a little north of the Lagan 

 canal— refers to the present station for the plant, though transferred to 

 Co. Antrim in the Flora of the North-east. A few days later I found 

 Typha angustifolia in a new station, in the old gravel pit by the railway 

 near Herdstown, west of Donaghadee, where Typha latifolia also grows, 

 as well as fine specimens of Orchis prcstermissa Druce, I also observed 

 Trifolium medium on the basalt and tip about the quarries in Scrabo — a 

 rare plant in Co. Down. 



Rathgar. A. W. Stelfox. 



